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Canada, Mexico travel rule dropped

Passport bumped for less costly card

By Bryan Bender
Globe Staff / January 18, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Bowing to opposition from border communities and from the travel industry, the Bush administration said yesterday that it will not require US citizens who frequently cross between the United States and Canada or Mexico to carry a passport, and will instead issue a more simple ''passport card." (Full article: 731 words)

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